last weekend while i was staying at the beach house in san clemente with friends, we celebrated the fall season/halloween with HARVEST DAY! we had a leisurely morning then had mexican food for lunch and started the search for carveable pumpkins. Armstrongs was SOLD OUT - apparently some guy showed up in a giant truck and BOUGHT THEM ALL. Um excuse me, we all want to celebrate! hellooooooooooo! anyways, so we ended up at Trader Joes where we purchased, pumpkin pie pumpkins (they even included cooking instructions). When we got back to the house, we started the CARAMEL APPLE ENDEAVOR. i washed the apples THOROUGHLY (scrub scrub scrub, add dish soap, scrub scrub scrub, rinse, dry REPEAT) in hopes that the caramel would STICK. when they were ready, gan and i opened NUMEROUS packages of caramel candies, waited for them to melt, added milk, shoved sticks into the apples, and moments later began DIPPING. oooooooh it was PERFECTION! with our apples dipped lovingly in generous portions of caramel (we may have double dipped, but that will remain our secret) we then melted some semi-sweet chocolate chips...and dipped again...then gan and kenz rolled theirs in chopped peanuts! WE ARE LEGIT!
while they were "setting up", we went outside to carve pumpkins. we decided corporately that we would each carve our initial onto our pumpkin (we think it is SO clever that our initials spell MRS. ha!). Unfortuantely, Kenz picked a pumpkin that was quite possibly made entirely of STONE! it was NOT carveable. sad day! so Kenz drew and "R" for Rebecca on hers while Megan and I carved an "M" and "S" respectively into our cutie cute little guys.
When we were done, we took photographs, then went inside for dinner. Dinner was a harvest appropriate meal - we had baked potatoes with chilli or chicken and brocolli or for gan - our token vegetarian - cheese and sour cream! you really can't go wrong with potatoes! after dinner we watched the mole, ate our apples, and enjoyed some apple/cranberry crisp that Kenz made. seriously it was the perfect HARVEST day! until next year...
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